Benedict Cumberbatch Expecting Second Child with Wife Sophie Hunter

E! News reports that Benedict Cumberbatch and his wife Sophie Hunter are expecting their second child. The two announced the arrival their first son, Christopher Carlton Cumberbatch, who is known as “Kit,” in June of 2015. Cumberbatch (that’s Benedict, not Kit) and Hunter appeared at the premiere of Doctor Strange last night, where the director Scott Derrickson told Vanity Fair that Cumberbatch was the perfect choice for the titular character, despite facing initial scheduling conflicts (he was starring in Hamlet in London when the film was supposed to start shooting).

This baby news will mostly likely make Cumberbatch as happy as stepping into a cerebral superhero role (which is basically the singularity of every role he’s played thus far). He raved about fatherhood in the October 2016 cover story of Vanity Fair. “Having a baby—it’s massive. And on a very unexpected level. Suddenly I understood my parents much more profoundly than I ever had before.”

Fatherhood also provided unexpected insight into the role of Hamlet. “I was expecting, with Hamlet, that it might be a hindrance to be a father, because it’s all about being a son. But it’s the opposite. You understand much more about being a son, becoming a father.”

Tilda Swinton, Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange co-star, added, “My fondest impression of him is as a new husband besotted by his girl, and a new father enchanted by his boy.”

And now he’s adding another baby to his Cumberbatch. (Sorry; it’s Friday. We had to.)